Gulf Oil Spill Could Spur Energy Bill

Cap and trade legislation is a scam. It always has been too. The only reason our President is pushing this legislation through is to distract Americans from seeing all his mishaps during the Oil spill. He's trying to politicize this accident when what he should be doing is taking up the Dutches offer to use their boes, which could have taken at least 20,000 gallons of the oil (in the first three days) out of the ocean and it could have continued to do so every day. Other private industries have offerred this to the President and he has turned this down. It's almost as if he wants this incident to get worse so that he can push through this Cap and Trade legislation that he as well as other Democrat members have been wanting to do for a long time now, but have gotten very little support from the general public. I'm sorry, I respect my President, but his actions during this spill have been really irresponsible. If we passed the Cap and Trade bill, another 1/6 of the private sectors wealth would adminstered into the government's hand. And they'd always have control over that money. Also, the bill will tax fossil and fuel companies, almost bankrupting this businesses. This would affect every area of life too. Farmers for example use fossil and fuel machinery to produce their crops. It is true that we have alternative green technology, but the problem with this is that the green technology can not produce the same mass amount of goods that fossil and fuel machinery can so farmers will lose out on money and it will affect the general public because they'll have to raise their prices to make up for the loss of goods they were unable to produce. This will effect every area-milk, poultry, fruits, vegetables even electricity as electricity runs on fossil fuel. This could potentially bankrupt the fossil fuel industry could would affect our over all industry production and our jobs imparticlarly with the middle class. Read up on the Industrial Revolution. Before the Industrial Revolution, there was the poor and the really rich and the rich had all the money. After the industrial revolution, the middle class was born, which shifted the wealth of the elitest into the average man's hands because they were able to accumulate their own wealth and pave out their own destinies. It is true that whoever holds the majority of the money, controls your country. That principle still rings true today. Please read up on the Industrial Revolution. What life was like before it and after it and why we do need our industry. It's directly linked with our middle class, which is the backbone of this country. Austraila was going to pass this bill a couple of years ago and many people were concerned that the bill was going to severely hurt the middle class, almost wiping them out...seriously. Research it. This is a scam. Please research this.

Grace of NE 6:10PM June 12, 2010